Thursday, 29 October 2015

I made a tag based (very loosely) on a Poem by Edger Allen Poe called The Raven. The quote I have taken from the Poems is "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing".

I used a giant manilla tag, for this piece. I painted over the whole tag with white, black and paynes grey acrylic. Adding more white paint to the centre and more black and paynes grey paint to the edges. I then put some card through a Sizzix Frameworks die and painted it black. While that was drying I looked in the scrap paper box for some suitable scraps which I scrapped some Gesso over before glueing into place behind the die cut. This was then cut into smaller sections and glued to the tag.

On tissue paper I stamped out the large bird from the Fly stamp set,dabbed some black and orange paint onto the waste from the diecuts and glued that in place. I then stamped around the edges with cogs from the Tick Tock stamp set. On a piece of book paper I stamped the large light bulb and the small bird from the Fly stamp set. Once I had cut that out and glued it in place I went around the edges with a black paint pen, also painting a line to the top of the tag so the light bulb looked as if it was hanging. I then filled the light bulb with glossy accents.

To finish I stamped out the words onto book paper, glued them in place, and edged then in parts with a black pen.

Thank you for reading, all of your comments are really appreciated.
Gemma (inkykitty)

Saturday, 24 October 2015

Debs here with another project for you, thought I would do a stepper card for you

This card is really easy to make providing you get the dimensions right to start with. I used a piece of Ranger Manilla card for this one which is not a standard UK size but it works the same with an A4 piece of card. Below is photo of the dimensions I used.

The key is to pencil mark of the size of the left hand panel and then work from the top of the card make a mark at 7cm then 14cm, 18cm, 22 and 25cm.

These marks then need to be scored so that the card folds easily. The second fold line needs to go right across the card the others only want to go as far as the pencil line you have done for the side panel. The pencil line needs to be cut from the first 7cm to fold to the last but not right the way down.

Once this was all done I coloured the card with Distress Inks using Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso. I used three colours on the tag as well I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the background on both the tag and the card. On the tag I used two sets of the Time stamps - Time and Keys and Tick Tock and used the cogs to add some extra background. I also used the cogs to stamp onto shrink plastic with Timber Brown Stazon ink cut them out and heated with a heat gun to shrink and make some embellishments which as I had run out of Tim Holtz ones was quite handy as they were the perfect size. I also stamped Happy Birthday on to a piece of card using Ground Espresso on Rusty Hinge.

Friday, 16 October 2015

I have been inspired by all the great Autumn/ Halloween art and decorations I keep seeing everywhere, and some of those things have inspired me to make this tag.

I smeared my some of my darker Distress Inks, Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot, after spraying it with some water I dragged a Large Manilla Tag through the ink, drying it in-between layers until I was happy with the coverage. Once dry I stamped over the top using a Calligraphy Mat ( I think it was number 4) and white paint.

I then cut out a tree from brown card stock and some grass from a small strip of green paper. I edged the tree with Black Soot. Then out came the box (that I am sure we all have) that contains all the mop up papers and extra pulls from the Gelli plate. From some of these I created the house. On the house I stamped with square wire to represent bricks, and lace on the roof.

After all that was glued on, windows included. I die cut some leaves from more scraps and cut a tag from a small scrap run through a brick embossing folder. I then edged the tag with distress ink, and stamped boo with the Decay alphabet. I stamped the leaves with a Grid stamp, for added interest and glued them into place.

All comments, and challenge entries are really appreciated, so please join in.

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

For the background, first I applied distress paints dusty concord, vintage photo and milled lavender.

when it dried, I applied DecoArt crackle glaze randomly on the surface, kept it to dry overnight, which resulted into beautiful crackle texture. To highlight it, I applied little bit of white acrylic paint. Next I stamped text, texture and flowers with archival inks.

Butterflies are stamped, cut and adhered, I've added small lavender pearls on them.

I love all Gibson girls stamps by Artistic Stamper. This image is new in my collection. I stamped her with Ranger jet black archival ink and coloured with distress inks.

The tag was done in exactly the same colours and using the same stamps. I stamped the fob watch from the Time and Keys plate onto card added some distress ink and then popped some glossy accents over the top. The backing of the watch was done UTEE in a melt pot. I wanted to create a case for the watch so I stamped the image into the utee which then enabled me to put the watch into place the little bits of UTEE were just little bits that had dropped off as i was pouring the UTEE i just happened to like the look of them on the tag. Live in the moment metal embellishment was added to another bit or poured UTEE.

In the top corner i added some texture with some clear texture paste and some fibres through the top and painted the edge of the card with tea dye paint.

You can just see the texture in the corner here

The glossy accents on the watch not quite sure how the colour changed here.

Thanks for popping in and don't forget to upload your entry into the challenge, I do enjoy seeing them all

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

To make the background, I have glued paper squares on to my page, coloured it with yellow and stamped Decay Swirl Background and Swirl Background Open from Backgrounds with Distress ink to have a smooth background.

Then I stamped Decay Journaling Stamps #1 and Decay Alphabet from Journaling, text from Time and Keys in Time and the butterfly from Butterflies #2 inButterflies & Birds, all with black Archival

The Blossom stamp from Debbie Cotton I stamped on to a cardboard and scraped it, then coloured it with Promarkers and sticked it to the background :

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Hello!
Welcome to the Creative Team blog challenge for the month of October. Thank you for all your entries for September's Challenge. They were amazing!
We have a great challenge for you this month...clocks!

We
are looking forward to seeing all your artwork and stamped projects
that you submit in relation to this theme. To join in with this
challenge (and you can join in as many times as you want), is simple;
all we would like you to do is, make a piece of artwork, making sure
that youinclude the theme and some rubber stamping. Pop
back here to link up using the Inklinkz at the bottom of this post, so
that we can see what you've made and then, leave us a comment to let us
know you have joined in with the challenge. As always, there will be
candy for one randomly picked entrant - the winner will receive £15
worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice. And
don't forget....if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you
will entered into the draw, twice!!!! You can also enter as many times
as you like!

A little bit of creativity for you from some of the team to help you get started....

I made this journal page by building up a layered background using the Cogs Background, Time and Keys, and Tick tock stamp plates. I stamped out the words using Decay lettering stamps. I then drew the figure and dress on separate paper and glued them in place.

I've
created small card size art piece with autumn colors. For background
colors I've used distress paints and inks. Next to that I stamped with
The Artistic Stamper calligraphy mat and swirls stamp set. Clock, bird and leaves are stamped separately with distress inks and cut them out to adhere on the background. For more details please visit my blog - Neon diary

We hope
that you will join in this month's challenge and look forward to seeing
your creations. Don't forget to add a comment when you have posted your
entry.I will be back in a couple of days with the winner of last month's Challenge.